Summary

A digital designer and youth media worker living in bristol, UK.

Current status
Available for commerical and community based media projects, commissions and workshops.

Personal qualities
Forward thinking, creative, articulate, with an informed, friendly and enthusiastic aproach to contemporary design, production and teaching within a variety of media fields.
An adaptable thinker with an ongoing awareness of technology trends, professional manner and excellent group and personal communication skills.

Digital media experience
Graphic design, identity creation and development, print and web based advertising and promotional literature, html / css website design and management, web interface design, content planning and production, copy writing and editing, digital photography, video camera operating, video editing and sound recording, domain management, email management, familiarity with asp / php technology and integrating with programmers.

Computer skills
Fully conversant on Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX platforms.
Specialist software packages: Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Director, Premiere, Cool Edit Pro.

Qualifications
BA (hons) Documentary Communication, class 2:1
ABC Introduction to Youth Work - level 1
ABC Youth Work - level 2 - Ongoing

Professional memberships
UK Web Design Association, 2004 - current
National Union of Journalists, 1994 - 1997

Awards / achievements
Website and Logo Design Coordinator Leading media workshops for the 'Fathers Group' at 'Hartcliffe & Withywood Teenage Parents Project', Bristol, which won the Queens Award for Voluntary Service.

UK representative for the 'National Multimedia Consortium' during the the ‘Leonardo da Vinci project', an award winning project involving a network of EU funded colleges, developing NVQ level interactive multimedia courseware.

Multimedia Designer for the 'Horizon 3' project, a collective of international colleges delivering learning materials to students with various learning difficulties.

Page One Books Prize - Presented by the Bishop of Hull
Award for the most outstanding dissertation in the School of Media and Communications, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside.

Producer / Production Manager of 'The Art Of Peace'
Documentary video commissioned by BBC2's 'Picture This' documentary strand and screened at the Munich documentary festival, Edinburgh documentary festival, and Leeds film festival.

Director of Photography / Sound Producer of 'The Box'
Fictional video screened at the Universirty of Lincolnshire and Humberside Degree Show.

Designer / Co-Producer of 'Ghost Town'
Interactive multimedia presentation exhibited at the Universirty of Lincolnshire and Humberside Degree Show.

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